Senior Transportation Planning Engineer/ Project Manager - AECOM

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AECOM is seeking a highly qualified Senior Transportation Planning Engineer/ Project Manager for immediate employment in Texas. This position offers the opportunity to engage in diverse planning work, including multimodal planning, sustainability, and advanced transportation planning. As a crucial member of our team, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in our transportation planning division in Texas.

The position entails the following critical responsibilities:

Project Oversight and Management:

• Direct and manage complex multimodal transportation planning projects, including feasibility studies, corridor studies, long-range transportation plans, freight plans, pedestrian & bicycle plans, border transportation master plans, and safety action plans.
• Ensure adherence to project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

Leadership and Client Relations:

• Serve as a key representative of AECOM, embodying the company's values and professional standards.
• Provide expert guidance to clients, both internal and external, on transportation planning matters.
• Facilitate seamless integration of planning and engineering efforts within project teams to establish a robust decision-making framework

Data Analysis and Implementation:

• Oversee the collection and analysis of multimodal transportation network data, economic indicators, freight statistics, and international trade information to support evidence-based decision-making.
• Implement innovative planning processes and generate high-quality deliverables, including comprehensive reports, detailed graphics, and sophisticated web-based products.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Conduct thorough stakeholder outreach and public involvement initiatives.
• Organize and lead high-level meetings and presentations with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of complex transportation concepts and plans.

Project Evaluation and Prioritization:

• Develop and critically evaluate alternative conceptual designs for transportation projects.
• Consolidate project alternatives based on rigorous analysis and stakeholder input.
• Identify and prioritize projects using established criteria and methodologies.

Business Development:

• Collaborate closely with the local area business development team and senior management in the strategic development and execution of significant project pursuits.
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with external and internal clients, industry associations, potential consultant team members, and contractors to enhance {URL}'s market position.

This position requires a high level of expertise, leadership, and commitment to advancing transportation planning in Texas and beyond.

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS + 8 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experienceand / or education

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ Years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience in multimodal transportation projects including planning and data analysis, economic evaluation, freight analysis and demand modeling.
• Bachelor’s degree in planning or civil engineering.
• AICP or PE Certification is required.
• Bilingual (Spanish + English) abilities are a plus.
• Understanding of the state and regional transportation planning frameworks and processes in Texas.
• Demonstration of effective leadership skills as a project manager, key task leader, or deputy project manager in a significant transportation planning project or program.

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. 
• AECOM is interest in every qualified candidate eligible to work in the United States. Permanent residency sponsorship is available for current H1-B visa holders in the United States. 
• Offered rate of compensation (Texas) area only will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The salary range for this position is $100,000 to $170,000.

About AECOM

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Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.